The U.N.’s civil aviation body will recommend creating a cyber security task force at a meeting next week in Canada, as new technologies introduced into aviation systems are increasing the risk of cyber attacks. The International ...
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The Secure Decisions Division of Applied Visions and developer of MeerCAT , a visualization toolkit for wireless network security, has been selected as a finalist in the Government Security News (GSN) 2012 Homeland Security Awards ...
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Pwnie Express, nationally known for innovative penetration testing tools, stormed into DerbyCon as a silver sponsor this year. The company unveiled the newest of their products, the Pwnie Express Enterprise Pentest Appliance (PX-EPA). ...
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A U.S. congressional committee appeared to come away still in doubt about the security of networking equipment from Chinese firms Huawei Technologies and ZTE after holding a Thursday hearing in which the two companies tried to dispel ...
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Symantec said Windows 8 “doesn’t move the needle much” on security as it rolled out new versions of its antivirus software and promised to provide users with several so-called “Modern” apps for the new ...
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President Obama is exploring the option of using his executive authority to get government agencies and critical infrastructure owners to implement better controls for protecting their computer networks. According to a report by Reuters, ...
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Groups of companies in the same industry could pool infrastructure resources to help each other mitigate the effects of cyber attacks and work together on security issues, a senior official in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ...
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Insurance broker R K Harrison has teamed up with Stroz Friedberg, a global digital risk management firm, to offer complimentary pre-incident consulting services for clients purchasing cyber liability policies through R K Harrison. Apart ...
DULLES, VA, June 24, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Technology Advancement Group , Inc. (TAG ), in cooperation with ITT Exelis , announced today the successful completion of its highly-integrated Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) system, providing ...
Different hacker groups claim to have breached servers belonging to ImageShack, Symantec, PayPal and other organisations. On Sunday, a hacker group called HTP claimed to have compromised Web servers, MySQL databases, routers and ...
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The problem of ransom malware has reached epidemic proportions and could be extracting fraudulent payments from as many as 3 percent of victims, a Symantec report has calculated. In a world already afflicted by botnets, banking Trojans ...
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Technology is taking an ever more central role in the way we work, live and play. The future for the IT community is bright, and IT professionals have a unique opportunity to lead their organisations to a successful economic recovery. But ...
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Big data analytics has the potential to reduce the growing number of cyber security risks and increase business agility, says a report by the Information Security Forum (ISF). According to the Data Analytics for Information Security ...
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A service discovered in the criminal underground is renting access to thousands of corporate servers that have been hacked through Windows software that lets people control computers remotely over the Internet. Dedicatedexpress.com is ...
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The UK should declare cyber war on states and criminals who target the country by using aggressive retaliatory strikes, says Parliament's Intelligence Security Committee (ISC). The call comes in the ISC's annual report, which says too ...
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